DRM 2010 - 6th IEEE International Workshop on Digital Rights Management DRM 2010

Goals and Topics
Consumers and consumer electronics are increasingly using the Internet for distribution of digital goods, including digital versions of books, articles, music, video, games, software and images. Organizations are also increasingly concerned with information protection and control within and beyond the corporate perimeter for reasons including traceability, compliance, accountability and persistent management of intangible assets. The ease with which digital goods can be copied and redistributed makes the Internet well suited for unauthorized copying, modification and redistribution. The rapid adoption of new technologies such as high-bandwidth connections, wireless networks, and peer-to-peer networks is accelerating this process.

This one-day workshop on Digital Rights Management Impact on Consumer Communications addresses problems faced by all stakeholders in this ecosystem including rights owners â?“ who seek to protect their intellectual property rights, develop innovative business models and end consumers / users â?“ who seek to protect their privacy, enjoy a good user experience and preserve access they benefit from using traditional media.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are intended to protect the rights of content owners in scenarios in which the participants often have conflicting goals and interests. This adversarial situation introduces interesting new twists on classical problems studied in cryptology and security research, such as key management and access control. Furthermore, novel security mechanisms and innovative designs can enable new business models and applications.

The workshop format will be highly interactive, based on a series of presentations held in a panel/forum type of environment to encourage discussion of topics and issues.

The workshop seeks submissions (consisting of a paper) on all theoretical and practical aspects of DRM, as well as experimental studies of fielded systems on topics including, but not limited to, those shown below:

â?¢ DRM protocols
â?¢ architectures for DRM systems
â?¢ interoperability
â?¢ auditing
â?¢ business models for online content distribution
â?¢ copyright-law issues, including but not limited to fair use
â?¢ digital policy management
â?¢ information ownership
â?¢ privacy and anonymity
â?¢ risk management
â?¢ robust identification of digital content
â?¢ security issues, including but not limited to authorization, encryption, tamper resistance, and watermarking
â?¢ threat and vulnerability assessment
â?¢ usability aspects of DRM systems, including but not limited to user acceptance and awareness
â?¢ web services
â?¢ societal and public policy issues
â?¢ implementations and case studies